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Cisco Bug: CSCum24668 - APEI Generic Hardware Error on Linux OS with BIOS 2.1.3(a)

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Nov 27, 2020

Products (1)

  • Cisco Unified Computing System

Known Affected Releases

2.1(3)A 2.1(3a)B 2.2(1)A 2.2(2b)B 4.0(0.306)

Description (partial) 

Symptom:
Hardware Errors seen when the OS with Redhat kernel is booted up.
Dec 17 07:38:05 ovs-02-b7-07 kernel: [Hardware Error]: Hardware error from APEI Generic Hardware Error Source: 1
Dec 17 07:38:05 ovs-02-b7-07 kernel: [Hardware Error]: APEI generic hardware error status

Conditions:
B200 M3 
BIOS 2.1(3a)
Oracle VM 3.2.2
Linux ovs-02-b7-07 2.6.39-300.29.1.el5uek

RHEL
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-358.e16.x86_64

Hardware Errors seen only when the OS is booted up completely.
Check #cat /var/log/messages | grep 'Hardware Error'

Related Community Discussions

Host firmware package upgrade from 2.1(1b) -> 2.1(3a) APEI Generic Hardware Error
Hello all,    We just did a UCS firmware upgrade from 2.1(1b) to 2.1(3a).    Our UCS is using the B200-M3 blades. And I use firmware policy to update the firmware on the blades.     I just did one blade as a test to upgrade from 2.1(1b) to 2.1(3a), and  after the blade boot-up (Oracle Linux 6.4) I saw the kernel trow out : [Hardware Error]: Hardware error from APEI Generic Hardware Error Source: 1 [Hardware Error]: APEI generic hardware error status [Hardware Error]: severity: 2, corrected [Hardware ...
Latest activity: Dec 24, 2013
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